Speechification

This is why I pay my licence fee (that and the threat of a prison sentence). How can you argue with this kind of really deep expertise and impeccable production quality? It’s like diving into a big warm bath of knowledge or sitting down to a four course dinner of insight (need some better imagery here…). But you should listen anyway. It’s full of interesting historical facts and quite a lot of Debussy’s music. And it’s fascinating to learn just how radical and scary his music was back before the first world war—now that it’s to be heard mainly on TV commercials and movie soundtracks (MP3).

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